Improvement in portabiie fence



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11S/.innovant'Inez' IN PoRTABnn 'rnNcn The Schedule referredto theseLetters APatent and-making part of the same I, JOHN o. sms, 0f Reny, inthe bounty' 0f Bntlerand State of Ohio,have invented certain-Improvetnents in Portable Fences, of Ywhich thel following is aspecification. A f u g My invention. relates `to that class of fenceswhich is constructed in panels, connected together by pins or bolts, andhas Yreferer'leeito the manner of eonst'rnction of the panels, and`'pivoting or hanging them together. i

able. fence in a zigzag shape. Vj Figure 2 is a plan ofthe fence in theform of'an inelosure 1 A andA are, respectively, rails of the panelrounded. -Thelower rail is secured Vto the blocks B B, which restuponthe ground. -r v 0 O are pickets, attached to the rails A A. Theirupper ends are pointed, or. ofornamental shape.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy improvedpolt the upperaiidflovver 1. V'lheirends are perforated and Their lower ends do notreaclrto the ground when the felice is in place,.but may. be extended towithin three or four inches of-it.

jA; diagonal brace extends from one end of the lower rail to theoppositeend ofthe upper rail. This brace D is secured to the pickets.upon the inside of the fence, and also to the rails against which itsend s'abut.

The rails E E" of the panel 2, to which ,they are similar, are pivotedto the rails of the panel 1 by pins c a. 1 i

The ends of the rails E Eaie located, the one above and the' other belowthe corresponding rails ofthe panel 1; in other respect the panel 2 isconstructed like the panel 1.l i

The panel 1, since rests upon vthe ground, may be termed the stationarypanel. The panel 2 lmay be placed'in any position with reference to it,and, being hinged tothe stationary panel, it may be used for a gate bysimply removing the pins a a from one end. Itis readily swung around itsother pivoted end, as shown in the dotted outline in fig. 2, in whichtwo panels, 2 2, are pivoted to two panels, 1 1, tovform an inolosurefor the pu-rpose of confining cattle or domestic animals. A

In an inclosure formed vby pivoting together a num- Vber of panels,asshown in iig. 2,' the inclosed cattle may he. transferred from one ieldto another; or, when t-hep'asture has been consumed in one section of aield,it is only necessary to lift fgom the ground the stationary panelsandshif't the entire inclosure, with d the vconfined animals, to anydesirable locality.

The facility with which this fence may be.' put up, taken down, oropened for the passage of vehicles, as well as its simplicity ofconstruction, suiciently ieeom mends it as an economical devicel for thepurposes for whiehit is designed `The arrangement ofthe. stationarypanel I, snpported upon the blocks B B, vand the movable panel 2, whenconnected by means of pins aa, and when operating together as and forthe purposes described.

Witnesses: JOHN O. SMITH.

V(l. L. FISHER,

SAML. E. CRAWFORD.

